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False equivalent ..., hacking elections et hacking debates...LMAO (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2017 OP
He got more debate questions from Ailes than she got MattP Jan 2017 #1
Trump didn't address the questions anyway... Blanks Jan 2017 #2
I've never seen one candidate so thoroughly dominate the other in every single debate. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #4
It is... Blanks Jan 2017 #7
And I suppose the media will go along with the false equivalency. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #3
Thanks... pbmus Jan 2017 #5
tragic comedy to make such a ludicrous comparison triron Jan 2017 #6

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
2. Trump didn't address the questions anyway...
Sun Jan 1, 2017, 05:00 PM
Jan 2017

What difference does it make to them who got questions in advance?

He just talked about whatever he wanted to talk about regardless of the question.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
4. I've never seen one candidate so thoroughly dominate the other in every single debate.
Sun Jan 1, 2017, 05:08 PM
Jan 2017

Trump's utter lack of substance *should* have made him unviable, yet he got more than 60 million votes. It's surreal.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
7. It is...
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 04:55 PM
Jan 2017

And I read Facebook posts from back in my hometown. They think they've elected Santa Clause. "We will see soon enough just how wonderful it's going to be", they tell me.

Geez, make it stop.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
3. And I suppose the media will go along with the false equivalency.
Sun Jan 1, 2017, 05:04 PM
Jan 2017

Must disregard critical thinking. Must stir up controversy and avoid "liberal media" tag.

Must obsess over spectacle and promote false equivalencies out of some twisted sense of what constitutes "balance."

Still the best article I've read yet related to the media's coverage of the 2016 campaign: http://www.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-cruel-crooked-caricature-doomed-clinton-520125.

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